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Quartzsite is a town in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2020 census, the population was 2,413. [3] ... Where Quartzsite is now located, ...
The Oasis Hotel – The restored Oasis Hotel which was originally built in 1900 and located on Main Street. The Quartzsite Cemetery – The cemetery was established in 1890, and renamed the Hi Jolly Cemetery in 1903 in honor of Hadji Ali a.k.a. Hi Jolly. The cemetery is located in the intersection of West Elsie and Hi Jolly Lanes. [10]
He built the fort to protect the local miners and water supply from the raids of the Yavapai (Mohave-Apache), a Native-American tribe. The area in which Fort Tyson was located has been known as Fort Tyson, Tyson’s Well and is now called the town of Quartzsite because of the large amount of quartz found in its surrounding areas.
The community of Quartzsite is located on the central-north section of the wash and east-central Dome Rock Mountains; Granite Mountain south of Interstate 10 and part of southwest Quartzsite, has drainage washes feeding into Quartzsite proper.
Map of the United States with Arizona highlighted. Arizona is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Arizona is the 14th most populous state with 7,151,502 inhabitants (as of the 2020 census) [1] and the 6th largest by land area spanning 113,623.1 square miles (294,282 km 2). [2]
The Hi Jolly Monument is a grave site in the Hi Jolly Cemetery located at Quartzsite, Arizona, United States, marking the grave of Hi Jolly, a Syrian-born camel driver brought to the United States in 1856 to drive camels for the US Cavalry. [2] The site is located halfway between Phoenix, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California. [3]
Quartzsite is highlighted in red. Incorporated cities are shown in gray and unincorporated communities or CDPs are shown in white. Data for the borders and locations are based on maps from the La Paz County Public Works - Comprehensive Plan 2005 , US Census Bureau TIGER Map Server , and ITCA Map of Tribal Homelands in Arizona .
U.S. Route 95 was a late addition to Arizona's U.S. Highway system, having been extended into the state around 1960 during the dawn of the Interstate Highway System. [6] [7] Though it is a short section of highway, only traveling between Ehrenberg and San Luis at the Mexico–United States border, it also serves as the main north–south highway to the cities of Yuma, San Luis, and Quartzsite. [2]